Side Quest Chapter Twenty-Four: The Judge
Oct. 24th, 2017 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigRaizel sat down. She wasn’t sure she had another option. The Diamond Raven stood behind her, his hands on her chair. She wondered at that, but she could ask him later.
“I have to get to the capital,” she told the Judge. “That has to be what I have to do first. If I miss the census-”
“Yes, yes, they have impressed on everyone how awful it would be to miss the census, I understand. And yes, you must pay taxes. Where would we be without taxes? I’d be out of a job, for one.” He flapped his hand in her direction. “No, no. This, I want you to do while you go. People are starting to hear about you, you see. People listen to you. I’m not sure why, but it’s not mine to reason why. It’s just mine to assign the tasks as they come to me.”
read on…
“I have to get to the capital,” she told the Judge. “That has to be what I have to do first. If I miss the census-”
“Yes, yes, they have impressed on everyone how awful it would be to miss the census, I understand. And yes, you must pay taxes. Where would we be without taxes? I’d be out of a job, for one.” He flapped his hand in her direction. “No, no. This, I want you to do while you go. People are starting to hear about you, you see. People listen to you. I’m not sure why, but it’s not mine to reason why. It’s just mine to assign the tasks as they come to me.”
read on…
